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The condo lifestyle is catching on in North America, especially for people who want to stay central and enjoy all the perks of big-city living. The catchphrase these days is "build up, not out," as big...

I can't resist the opportunity to respond to Les MacPherson's column, Resource royalties minefield for governments (SP, March 25) wherein he states,: "The (Blakeney NDP) government responded in turn by buying up 40 per cent of the provincial potash industry at a cost roughly equivalent to $2.3 billion today, all of it borrowed."

Here's a bet: Joe Oliver's budget - current whereabouts unknown, somewhat like the finance minister himself - and the Liberal response to it, will yield the ultimate ballot question in the 2015 election. That's because, security craze aside, the economy is the only big remaining file on which the two front-running parties - Conservatives and Liberals - are still battling over the same turf. And it is prime real estate.

Friday's Supreme Court decision upholding the federal government's right to destroy the last data from the federal long-gun registry appears to be a political victory for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and gun rights advocates.

Back in 2002, when George W. Bush was thinking about invading Iraq, his secretary of state, Colin Powell, warned the hawks around the table about the possible consequences, coming up with the Pottery Barn Rule: if you break it, you buy it.

Nine months after Premier Brad Wall said his government would act to level the playing field for Saskatchewan companies victimized by local preference procurement rules in other provinces, SaskBuilds Minister Gordon Wyant has introduced a 13-point plan whose vague wording leaves lots of wiggle room.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper brushed aside questions Wednesday about Canada's legal right to bomb Syria, ridiculing the opposition by saying he wasn't worried about "lawyers from ISIL taking the government of Canada to court."

The federal government will introduce legislation Friday to increase the value of the monthly universal child care benefit, with the first payments hitting bank accounts three months before Canadians are scheduled to go to the polls in a federal election.

When Saskatchewan's government this week announced plans to renegotiate potash royalties, Potash-Corp share prices dropped five per cent in 24 hours. This is not surprising. Investors know the government is not renegotiating potash royalties in order to reduce them.